Health (Burma/Myanmar)

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Burma urgently needs humanitarian assistance; the country’s HIV/AIDS sufferers are dying and require medical attention.
But the generals who rule the country are not ready to acknowledge the humanitarian crisis facing the country. Worse still, they prevent aid workers from delivering assistance (...)

A hospital run by the Burmese military government has stopped providing free medical services to HIV/AIDS sufferers, according to a person living with HIV/AIDS who was directly affected by the decision.
Tin Ko Ko said that HIV/AIDS sufferers who receive treatment at Rangoon Infectious Diseases (...)

Zar Zar’s husband was a womanizer. Throughout their five years of marriage he was a regular in the brothels around the city of Rangoon in Burma, drank heavily, was violent, and more than once gave her a sexually transmitted infection.
She tried telling his parents, but they had never approved (...)